Place:


Leeds Kent

 

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Leeds. You may be able to find further references to Leeds in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
LEEDS a village and a parish Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Leeds.

Place Type of entry Source
NASH a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Leeds within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Kent 3
John Byng A Tour into Kent, 1790 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Nash 0 1
Broomfield 0 2
Eyhorne 0 2
Langley 0 2
Otham 0 2
Bearstead 1 2
Hollingbourne 5 2
East Sutton 0 1
Thurnham 0 3
Harrietsham 0 2
Chart Sutton 0 2
Ulcombe 1 2
Boughton Monchelsea 0 2
Sutton Valence 0 2
Hucking 0 2
Loose 1 2
Pennenden Heath 0 2
Maidstone 42 3
Tovil 0 2
Detling 0 3